Ewan Morrison's novel skewers dreams of utopian living

Close Your Eyes is the new book by Scottish author Ewan Morrison. It takes a long, hard look at the realities and consequences of highland hippiedom and is in fact loosely based on Ewan Morrison's own childhood growing up with hippie parents. For some, the fictional commune in the book is utopia -- but for the children of the revolutionaries, like the protagonist Rowan, it's something else entirely. When the novel opens, we meet Rowan as an adult, married with a newborn child and living in London. She's suffering from post-natal depression which triggers many unresolved issues from her own problematic childhood. She's also haunted by her past and especially the mystery surrounding the death of her own mother in a car accident. So Rowan leaves her own daughter to go back and find the answers.